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2017

Halloween is tomorrow and today’s looking like that last day of the season. Feeling fortunate tha I’ve been closing out the year with these guys for over a dozen years in a row. Tradition. And it doesn’t look like things will change anytime soon. Already booked for next year. Same time,...

Happy Friday the 13th. Glad this young bull moose decided to stay right where he was! We were on the Upper Madison somewhere around Varney Bridge and coming out of a sidechannel with a fast, narrow chute of water that squirted us literally right in front of this guy. Fishing has been tough...

Max Yzaguirre Sr showing us how to get things done in early October! Finally a bit of a break from the wet and cold dreariness is taking place. Low pressure, rain and snow are being replaced with high pressure, sun, and relative warmth once again. And it’s a welcome change! I can’t recall...

Feels like fall has decided to make its presence known. Heck, maybe even early winter! Gone are the days of fishing without waders and a good jacket. Might not see them again until next year. Sunny, warm weather has been replaced by overcast skies, cold temps and snow, especially in the...

Early September fishing in the Yellowstone - shorts, sandals, and sunscreen still a daily mantra. Change? Guessing sometime soon. A few of the riverside cottonwoods are showing a little tinge of what may be coming ahead. A few branches here-there with some color other than green. We love...

The end of summer? Think not. Labor Day week may signify that all the kid’s are back in school. And August is one for the books. But its not the end of summer.... It’ll be a few weeks for that yet! We’re continuing to see some fun fishing in the area. One of our favorite places is...

A good week on the Stone shaping up. Upper valley dry fly activity has been good to excellent with a lot of quality fish looking up for a meal. Terrestrial bugs are definitely the show stoppers and will likely continue to be for at least the next several weeks. As August slips to September...

How did August sneak up so fast? Seems like everything around here has been fishing well and in many cases, just keep getting better. Fish are looking up which is nice. Been hearing more and more about hopper bite and terrestrial patterns being the goods. What's your favorite grasshopper...

Good fishing on the Yellowstone River. Flows are still a fair bit above what they have been in the past couple years this late into July. But- conditions are setting up for a really positive late July through September time period. We are definitely excited about the prospects for the remainder...

Starting to see the rivers and creeks in the Northeast Corner turn on as of recently. Several of our guides have been in the Park and finding some fun fishing. Still lots of water, but this corner of the Park is finally coming into its own and will be a great option for the rest of the summer!...

Yellowstone River is starting to shape up pretty decently. Kaitlyn here found herself a dandy of a brown floating the upper valley yesterday. You can see by her smile that she's digging fly fishing! Is it Rockem-Sockem fishing out there? Not really. Just being honest. But, folks are...

What's the Yellowstone looking like? Take a look yourself. Here's a pick from the Mill Creek bridge. Yeah, if the river doesn't head back into higher CFS range again tomorrow or Tuesday from the high 80 degree temps we are going to get, things could be turning the corner here real quick! It's...

Paradise Valley Spring Creeks showing signs that the long-awaited PMD hatch is getting underway for the summer. We've had guides on the creeks most every day this past week and while some days have been definitely better than others, the PMD mayflies have been showing up. And the fish are...

Yellowstone Park Opener yesterday. Good fishing on the classic Park areas to be expected. Firehole, Gibbon, and Madison are the zones to focus on. The NE Corner is way off color and very high waters due to runoff. The NW Corner with the aforementioned Firehole, Gibbon, and Madison are in...

The Yellowstone River and pretty much most everything else in the area have gone into runoff mode the past week, but there's still good fishing opportunities. Guides have been busy with a handful of private lakes we turn to from now through early July. The Paradise Valley Spring Creeks are also a...

As is so often the case with the Mother's Day caddis, there's a fine line between when the caddis really pop and the hatch is in full force and the onset of runoff. Pretty hard to hold back 130% snowpack when the days are hitting 80 degrees. We're not wholly down and out in the area. Yes, the...

Folks been asking. Here's seeing! Yes, that's Emigrant peak in the background. Isn't it looking cool with all that snow? Oh- you want to know about the caddis. Well, they're right here. And down valley all the way to and below Livingston. Today it hit 70 degrees by the thermometer outside the...

Oh what a day! The clouds finally rolled back and look what's there..... With this kind of a sunny day and warming up a bit, there's a chance that we might be seeing some caddis in the next week. Reports have been coming in that east of Livingston has shown a few caddis here and there. March...

Late April on the spring creeks and fishing has been consistently fun! There are still a number of spawning fish in all 3 spring creeks. On Depuy's, there's a closed section on both the lower creek by Eva's hut as well as in Betty's riffle on the upper creek. Both locations are marked with...

Good fishing was had this past weekend. River conditions are still considerably elevated in flows from what one would typically expect for late April, but clarity is good and improving each day. It's still green and there's a good 2 feet of viz when looking at the river off the banks a little bit...

Happy Monday after Easter.
We're continuing to see ourselves in a bit of the Yo-Yo Stone syndrome. Late last week, daytime temps hit 75 degrees. Felt good to be in flip flops for the day, but it didn't do much for keeping the river in shape. Friday the river came up 750...

Top o' the week to you! Certainly looks a bit more like early-mid April than a few days ago. By that I mean the new snow in the valley as well as up in the High Country. Seems to keep piling up in those higher elevations. Snow Water Equivalency (SWE) still...

Looking at our river this morning, the recent few warmer days have had an effect. Low elevation snow in and around the area including up to the lower Lamar basin have been running into the river. While we're not seeing a big mud situation, the Stone certainly has...

Taking a look at the Yellowstone down by Springdale, on outward appearance the river looks pretty sweet doesn't it? As we've all heard before, looks can be deceiving... In actuality, the river pretty much from top to bottom right now has anywhere from about 2 feet of viz...

Paradise Valley spring creeks are fishing well. Lots of fat, healthy rainbows are coming in from the river on their spring spawning run. Fair numbers of big river browns coming in behind those bows as well. We have been seeing some midges on the water and on most days...

Getting around the valley a bit today, we've been keeping an eye on what's usable as far as boat ramps. And what's not. It's early, but there's been folks asking. So, here's a quick rundown on where you can and where you CAN'T put-in or take out your...

I'll admit, we've been away for a bit. Winter Happens..... and this has been a "real" winter around here. Not much like the past couple where by now in early Feb the low snow in the valley is all but gone Nope, this off season has been cold and snow...